Healing

At Mass last night, Father Vincent said something that struck me.

His content of his sermon that night was in light of the anniversary of the Roe vs Wade decision. Without getting into the details of it (for others do a far better job explaining it compared to my attempts), this Supreme Court decision made abortions legal in the United States. Since then, there have apparently been about 42 million abortions (recorded).

Upon sharing this figure, Fr. Vincent very poignantly had us consider that it wasn't just the 42 million unborn children that were affected by abortion, but that at least 84 million others were, for every one of those children had a mother and a father...how tragic of us to ignore the grief and pain that they too must have felt.

So he asked us to pray that night, not only for the children who weren't born, but for these 84 millions moms and dads, who have had to carry the grief with them...he had us recognize the utmost importance of praying for their healing. Pain has a way of living through generations, surviving death and living again through newborns...if our parents carry grief and are unable to heal, that pain becomes very real to us.

There is too much pain in the world right now...so, let us pray for healing...